Category Archives: Bash

On several occasions NFS has inexplicably stopped working with my ZFS shares under ZFS on Linux on Ubuntu Server 14.04×64. It seemed to happen every reboot, after checking the sharenfs property on each of the ZFS FS’ I found they were set properly, but still clients were getting access denied when trying to mount the share. Other times, even when they were able to re-mount the share they wouldn’t do so unless I manually triggered it.Continue reading ZFS on Linux NFS shares lost at reboot→

I’ve been noticing that periodically my MySQL service will hang and require a restart. It’s easy enough to SSH in and restart it, but I only catch it after the fact. So I wrote this little script which curls my website, sees that it’s down and restarts MySQL and shoots me an email with sSMTP. This only checks for the MySQL service not accepting connections from Apache. If there’s an error with Apache, or it’s not running this won’t do anything. Continue reading Bash script to automatically restart MySQL when website database connection is down→